As the next few days were were going to be in the car, a lot we decided that some physical exercise was in order. I suppose one thing which in the abstract I had thought about was the large distances which I would have to travel, thinking about it is one thing, driving it is another.
We hired bikes from a hire shop and decided to visit the seventh best beach in the USA which is Coastguard Beach on one side of the Cape. It is a protected beach and quite tricky to get to by car, so there are not that many visitors who choose to either walk or bike. However there was a yellow school bus, and lots of primary children getting a bit of a talk from ranger.
The ride was good not too many hills either up or down, the beach was nice but very windy. Sitting on the sand were were given a very good sand blasting, we saw a few seals in the water. On the beach notices there is a warning that 'white sharks swim in this area and feed on seals so if you are swimming avoid the seals!' How do you avoid seals and if they swim near you? how do to you tell them to go away! would it not be more sensible to not swim in that area...
We then cycled to Marconi beach, along the old cape cod rail way trail, which is perhaps 15 miles away, well we intended to cycle to Marconi beach but we over shot the beach and went to Lookout beach by mistake. We had stopped off on the way for a mid morning coffee and at Lookout we had our picnic lunch.
We returned to the hire shop there was a bit of drizzle and it did feel as if we were heading into the wind, but that may be imagination..
Back in the car we drove to Marconi beach and had a bit of a rest then visited Truro. Tea was at the Moby Dick's 'a whale of a meal' English waitresses working for the season. We could not buy a set of lobster fairy lights in the gift shop...shame.
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